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What’s the beef with meat?
A recent report is advising Americans to eat less meat, for both nutritional and environmental reasons.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released its 2015 Dietary Advisory Guidelines, a report released every five years and is generally used as an eating guide to promote healthy lifestyles. This year, however, the report is also encouraging plant-based diets, due to their lighter environmental impact. Monday, March, 02, 2015 - Forum News Service - News

Pasture-raised pork a boost to local food scene
Wrenshall, Minn., hog farmer Matt Weik can talk passionately about the marbling of his pork, its dark red color and its ability to melt in your mouth given certain treatments.
And then later, he’s sitting in a cozy hay-filled pen with a sow and her piglets, stroking the mother and delicately checking on the babies. It sort of proves the theory: you can have your bacon, but you should scratch it, too. Wednesday, January, 28, 2015 - Forum News Service - News

HSUS alleges cruelty at Minn. chicken plant
FARGO, N.D. — A southwest Minnesota food company denies allegations from an animal rights group that it scalded alive spent laying hens, and says there is no concern the company will interrupt its production. Monday, January, 12, 2015 - Agweek - News

New ND business turns bison manure into bison compost
Owners of a large bison ranch near here have partnered with another couple to sell what they refer to as “America’s original compost.”
The company, Bison Compost, is owned by Dennis Sexhus and Keith Kakela of North Prairie Bison Ranch and old friends Judy and Tom Duenow of Elk River, Minn. Tuesday, December, 02, 2014 - Forum News Service - News

Minn. company develops PEDv vaccine
The pork industry is making progress in its fight against the porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus, a disease that killed more than 7 million piglets in the past year, officials say. Monday, October, 20, 2014 - Agweek - News

Nearly 400 bison removed from Theodore Roosevelt National Park’s South Unit
This week, Theodore Roosevelt National Park’s staff began a roundup to remove nearly 400 bison from the 110-square-mile South Unit.
The roundup is part of a regularly-scheduled reduction of bison population to maintain the health of the park’s animals and the grassland that they feed on. An estimated 200 bison will remain at the park when the roundup is complete. Wednesday, October, 15, 2014 - Forum News Service - News

Mont. wants to give away bison
Montana wants 145 bison that originated in Yellowstone National Park given away to six organizations in five states, including New York’s Bronx Zoo, to further the conservation of America’s last pure-bred wild buffalo, under a plan released Oct. 1. Monday, October, 06, 2014 - Reuters - News

Sessions will address coverage options
BOZEMAN, Mont. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture and Montana State University Extension are conducting meetings to inform Montana producers about important new programs authorized by the farm bill. Monday, September, 22, 2014 - - News

Watch out for Palmer amaranth weed this year
South Dakota farmers have discovered Palmer Amaranth weed and North Dakota officials are urging farmers to keep a sharp eye for a “spawn of evil” during harvest.
South Dakota State University weed scientists say the weed was found in a sunflower field in Buffalo County next to the Missouri River in central South Dakota. Tuesday, September, 16, 2014 - Agweek - News

1964 plowing contest drew 100,000 people to ND farm
Ramona Fraase says her grandchildren aren’t sure what a plow is.
But plowing was important enough once to bring 100,000 people, including U.S. presidential and vice presidential candidates, to her family farm near Buffalo, N.D., for the 1964 National Plowing Contest. Monday, September, 15, 2014 - Agweek - News

South Africans learn new farming techniques, enjoy life in ND
This year, five Lankin, N.D.-area farms are hosting a total of a dozen young international farm workers, including 10 from South Africa, one from Brazil and from the Eastern European country of Moldova. Wednesday, August, 20, 2014 - Forum News Service - News

SD meetings help inform farmers on farm bill programs, decisions
With a new farm bill signed into law, farmers are now faced with big decisions that could affect their farms far into the future.
To help farmers in South Dakota learn about the new five-year farm bill, which sets policies for hundreds of programs ranging from farm subsidies to nutrition, the South Dakota Farmers Union and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency held an educational meeting Aug. 13 at the Cedar Shore Resort in Oacoma. Thursday, August, 14, 2014 - Forum News Service - News